I actually bought a lot of my vintage stuff back in the '80s and '90s via "old school", pre-Internet newspaper ads. It was much cheaper, back then (i.e. my TR-909 cost $250, PolySix $100, JP-8 cost $1,200 w/ MIDI etc.) These days, I buy and sell on eBay / craigslist like many other people do.

@PHAEDRIDER

6 жыл бұрын

yep.." the recycler" and the "pennysaver" were gold mines

Yagga97, good point about the technical "limitations" of the devices of the '80s - gear back then was much less complex and powerful, but that didn't prevent the users to make great music. Actually, you can replicate the feel of hardware sequencers with a PC by hard-quantizing (8th & 16ths are the common quantize resolutions used in the '80s) and keeping arrangements "simpler" and less busy than today's music. Very cool that you are 10 :) I have a son of your age.Thanks for watching the channel.

Thank you - not that I play Italo style only, but it's the music of my teen years in Italy so I remember it fondly

The Crumar bit series synths are instant Italo Disco in my opinion. Great demo!❤️🎹

505 sounds good to me.

This is the most accurate reproduction of 1980's sound ever recorded on youtube. Very well done!

The Roland MSQ-700 was one of if not the first polyphonic multitrack hardware sequencers available. Quite useful given its equipped with Rolands DIN Sync and MIDI. At one point Greg Hawkes (keyboardist with "The Cars") used two MSQs to drive "The Cars" many sequence based songs. I moved onto the Roland MC-500 (later the MkII) which was/is an amazingly piece of hardware being powerful and rock-solid reliable. Ten years constant use performing and it never failed not once - amazing.

The 505 might be the most underrated drum machine ever. I love mine so much :-)

@RicardoDiLago

5 жыл бұрын

with some effects , like in this vid, it is great indeed!

@chockergram

3 жыл бұрын

I had one back in the 80s. Useless - the tempo drifted all over the place.

@kensmechanicalaffair

2 жыл бұрын

@@chockergram Thats crazy because it doesnt, lol.

@ProjectEurobeat

2 ай бұрын

​@@kensmechanicalaffair I guess some do and others don't.. Mine does have a little tempo drift going on, but i usually just use a sequencer so it doesn't do much for me. Love the sounds though

It it just me or is the MSQ-700 really pretty? I just love that Roland 80s look. 505 luv! :)

@machiwoomiapoo

8 жыл бұрын

+Die, Master Monkey (Die, Master Monkey) I agree.

@FrankNFurter1000

5 жыл бұрын

You're not alone in that thought!

@synthartist69

5 жыл бұрын

I agree! I had one.. lovely machine

I have always loved the sound of the BIT99. Those are very hard to find!

Thanks and yes, the MSQ-700 has input quantize - see that horizontal slider in the middle of the unit? You can set it to real-time, 1/32, 1/24, 1/16, 1/12, 1/8, 1/6, 1/4, 1/2 . Of course for this it was set at 1/16 so I could do the typical fast sequenced lines in the last part of the video.

Thank you - they are different (arguably "colder"), they remind me more of the alpha-Juno / JX / MKS series - however they are more versatile with two oscillators, velocity, split etc.

I just bought the MSQ-700. I'm excited to make some good old 80's music now. Thanks for all the inspirational videos. You do such a great job. Take care, Sam.

Hi, the sequencer played back what I had recorded in real time - I cut half of the video frames of the recording phase from the video because it would have taken too long to show at low speed, but then it plays back the complete jam at fast speed at the end. I'm only using one MSQ channel out of eight, I could have made it more complex by using the other channels but didn't have much time to record yesterday. I'll do another video soon

Thanks - yep, it was much simpler back then - now we arguably have too many options in our DAWs! :-)

@SplotchTheCatThing

3 жыл бұрын

They certainly make it very easy to add loads and tons of *things* into a song that the song doesn't need. Helps to take a step back every so often to think and make sure you know what it is that you're making, so that you can keep making the ever-so-important decisions of what it's not. And while I'm not in a position to say what writing or production was like before my time, I am pretty sure that thinking makes most things better.

mmmmm love that sound!!!! i grew up in this era and the synthesizer always my favoirte and it still is :-)

love that bit 99 brass sound..... (mucho 80 ties !!)

@synthartist69

5 жыл бұрын

Heck yes!!!! Its great!!

Very cool, looking forward to reading the interviews! thank you

Super cool vintage sounds and vintage sequencing :)

Mindbogglingly brilliant! Keep up the great videos! :@D

Love it! And the sound that comes of the TR-505 makes me go wild. :D

Great demo, great tunes!

I'm back in the 80's love the 80's...thanks!

those are some really nice tunes you made!

Absolutely brilliant demo. Loved it. Italo disco ftw.

thanks for posting these videos.

No TR-505 on the Roland Soundcoud.. awwww! Nice Jam, I was born in 1971 and I heard the 505 all the time on the radio. Now I know where some of those drum sounds came from. Keep up the good work! Very inspiring stuff on Synthmania.

@SynthManiaDotCom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

in 1986 I had the same instruments, but i used Yamaha MX computer as sequencer .... great !!!

you got the groove ! great melodies

Thank you - I used just one channel ouf of eight due to time constraints - I plan to do another video using all eight channels and more synths / drum machines.

The Roland TR 505 in full glory,it sure packed a punch for its size.

Why am I not subscribed to you? This is the jam.

Very nice. Bit 99 sounds great! :)

At last, a playback video of this rare sequencer! Very nice!

This is so great

nice melodies by the way.. soo good like always

Again... Excellent!

Very instructive and nice! Thanks! :-D

Could be a sound track to most 80's movies...nice work

I agree, the MC-500 series software was great and rock-solid

Awesome man!

nice sound man

You rule! This video is great.

what a great machines

awesome man! i still want a msq-700

So awesome

Thank you very much for the info :)

SO SICK

thank you!! great video!

very fun session

The last part is definitely sounds like The Flirts - Passion. Love this.

Yowza, thems some funky fresh beats yo!

Cheesy 80's synth pop is definitely the order of the day with these retro gear. Modern music seems to be drawing itself back to these analogue synth bass rhythm.

Brilliant!

Thank you

Yo this goes so hard bro srsly

Nice....thanks for sharing.

i love the italo vibes of your vids !

Love it

Nice Roland,thank you Dave Smith!;-).

Simple set-up, good sounds.

amazing piece of kit :) I know howard jones used 2 of these the 500 version on tour

More MSQ videos please!

I haven't tried connecting more than two keyboards yet (no time until December...) but it should work - you might want to get a MIDI hub or patchbay so you don't have to constantly swap the MIDI cables

Bravo!!! 🙌🙌👏👏👏

@SynthManiaDotCom

4 жыл бұрын

Grazie!

Do you have the source of that info, like an article, book, interview etc? I'd love to read it

Thank god I'm not the only one slowing down the tempo so I could play it easily and not having to quantize anything haha GREAT TUNES!

Thanks

This is great, very inspiring. Reminded me of the Kavinsky record. Must...resist...urge...to buy...everything!!

yes, I used MIDI to sync the 505

excellente!

i had a white crumar bit99. i didn't keep it because it wasn't an oberheim but it did have some good sounds on it.

Ha :-) I remember Falco very well. Which of the three parts in this demo reminds you of him?

very nice

Bravo!

nice tunes

I got up and danced lol

@kierenmoore3236

6 жыл бұрын

Think ya betta DAAAAANCE Now!

I used an MSQ-700 back in the early 80's, but quickly moved on to the C64 "SuperSequencer" (from "Sonus"), then a few years later found myself using the Kawai Q-80. I find it interesting that I went from hardware to software, then back to hardware. From the Q-80 I moved on to Emagic Logic on the Mac in the mid-1990s, which is, in my opinion, as close to perfection as a MIDI sequencer can get.

great italo sound!

awesome

Wonderful!!! ^_^

505 for life! So sick. That MSQ-700 is so sexy lol 😝

i think its more fun to record like how they did in the 80s than easy abelton or pro tools i believe

Would you say that the 'sound' of Italo changed when MIDI sequencers came out? I guess it was easier to create Italian Hi-NRG with MIDI in the mid to late 80s than it would have been with CV and gates at the beginning of the 80s.

Grazie - ho comprato la maggior parte della mia attrezzatura negli anni '80 e '90, prima che scoppiasse il boom del vintage, comunque roba come per esempio l'MSQ si trova benissimo - e a poco - sul mercato dell'usato, perche' nessuno li usa piu'...

Did that thing have input Quantizing? My first sequencer was the Alesis MMT-8.. My sophomore year in HS! Amazing machines! I STILL use hardware sequencers! My K2600 runs everything in my studio! Post is on the Puter! This is an excellent video into Midi sequencing history!

The later MC-80 is extremely advanced compared to the MSQ-700 however the aesthetics of the MSQ-700 are incredible, love hitting those chunky big buttons!

Cool!

Thank you midi;)

Very much reminding me of Scotch

Actually there is quantization, the MSQ was set up at 16ths -

via MIDI clock

Hey, great video! can you record new sequences on the fly with the MSQ700? as in whilst the sequence is playing record a new part? I have been looking for a Midi sequencer for live use so i can improvise lines on synths and either leave what last played looping, or else overdub something new. Im not sure if you have to stop the sequence each time you finish a recording or if you can just punch in / punch out. Also is it possible to mute particular midi channels, as in in your demo could you on the fly mute the RH and leave the LH bass going, or would you need to record a new sequence of just bass and toggle between them? Thanks! (sorry for the random long comment!)

How do you get the 505 to start once you load? And how do you get the 505 to sync with msq? I just got one and I’m having difficulty syncing my 626 to it

omg!!!

Thanks, I love your videos! How is the bit 99 as aDCO synth when you compare it to juno60 or 106?

complimenti...quanta nostalgia per questo sound e per l'hardware che utilizzi....Ho guardato molti dei tuoi video ....ma come fai a possedere ancora tutta questa attrezzatura?

Hello Paolo, greetings from Finland! Thank you for the awesome and informative videos! I have one question for you: how did you manage to sync the TR-505 with MSQ-700? I'm curious to know where that yellow MIDI cable is connected? I'm struggling to connect my Juno-106 and TR-505 to my MSQ-700. As far as I know, the TR-505 does not have a DIN sync output. I would appreciate your help in this matter!

@SynthManiaDotCom

6 жыл бұрын

Hello, Night Driver - Very easy: the 505 has MIDI, so it's easily connected to the MSQ-700 --- just go from MSQ-700 MIDI Out to the Juno-106's MIDI In, and from the Juno-106's MIDI Thru to the TR-505's MIDI In.

Any way to turn all these into actual tracks? I'd love to have them for daily listening.

Yes :)